Scyphiphora.] LXIV. RUBIACEiB. 759 



Corolla-tube 1^ to nearly 2 lines long, hairy inside at the orifice ; lobes ovate- 

 oblong, rather obtuse. Drupe oblong, crowned by the calyx-limb, longitudinally 

 ribbed and furrowed, 3 to 4 lines long. Albumen present but very scanty. — 

 Epithinia Malayana, Jack.; DC. Prod. iv. 478. 



Hab.: Albany Island, Cape York, M'Gillivray, W.Hill; Curtis Island, P. O'Slianesy ; and 

 many other tropical localities. 



The species appears to be common on the coasts of Ceylon, of the islands of the Archipelago, 

 and of the Malayan Peninsula. The figures and descriptions of Gartner, Fr. iii. 91 t. 19B, and 

 of A. Bich in M6m. Soc. Hist. Nat. v. 159 t. 14 are incorrect in many particulars. The only 

 accurate account of the structure of the ovary and fruit I am aware of is that of A. Gray, Not. 

 Eub. 19.—Benth. 



A very hard timber, used by natives for making true yam-sticks. — Roth. 



16. GUETTARDA, Linn. 

 (After Etienne Guettard.) 



Calyx-tube campanulate or globose ; limb cup-shaped, truncate or toothed, 

 deciduous. Corolla salver-shaped ; tube cylindrical, much exceeding the calyx, 

 rather slender ; throat naked or thinly bearded ; limb spreading ; lobes 4 to 9, 

 imbricate. Stamens 4 to 9, inserted on the tube of the corolla, sessile or 

 subsessile ; anthers linear, fixed at the back rather above the base, included or 

 half-exserted. Ovary 4 to 9-celled ; cells distant, 1 -ovulate ; funicles thickened ; 

 style filiform ; stigma subcapitate, slightly lobed, included or shortly exserted. 

 Fruit globose, drupaceous ; flesh scanty ; putamen woody, 4 to 9-celled ; cells 

 narrow. Seeds straight or curved ; testa membranous ; albumen wanting or 

 scanty ; radicle elongated. — Shrubs or trees with opposite leaves, intrapetiolar 

 deciduous stipules and hermaphrodite or polygamo-dioecious flowers, sessile, 

 secund, on the branches of opposite axillary cymes. 



The species of this genus chiefly inhabit tropical America. 



1. Ct. speciosa (beautiful), Linn.; DC. Prod.iv. 455 ; Benth. Fl, Austr. iii. 

 419. A coarse shrub attaining 5 or 6ft., the young branches thick, often 

 flattened, gummy and glabrous or tomentose. Leaves shortly petiolate, broadly 

 obovate-orbicular or ovate, very obtuse, rounded or slightly cordate at the base, 

 6 to loin, long or even more, glabrous above, softly pubescent tomentose or nearly 

 glabrous underneath. Flowers large, white, very fragrant, in rather dense 

 cymes. Calyx-limb truncate, deciduous, 1 to 1^ line long. Corolla-tube above 

 lin., sometimes l^in. long ; lobes 4 to 9, oblong, obtuse, not -^-in. long. Ovary- 

 cells 4 to 9, usually 5 or 6. Drupe nearly globular, attaining lin. diameter, 

 chiefly consisting of the very hard woody endooarp, more or less lobed, the 

 interstices filled with a hard fibrous mesoearp, the cells and seeds small and 

 curved.— Wight, Ic. t. 40 ; Bot. Eeg. t. 1393. 



Hab.: Torres Straits, R. Brown, and along the coast and adjoining islands from thence to 

 Edgecombe Bay and Port Denison, F. v. Mueller, W. Hill, and others. Very common on the 

 tropical coast sands. 



17. ANTIRRH^A, Juss. 



(From anti, against, and reo, to flow ; plants of the genus used to stop 

 hsemorrhage in Bourbon.) 



Calyx-limb 4 -lobed. Corolla-tube slender ; lobes 4, imbricate in bud. Anthers 

 included in the tube. Ovary 2-celled, with 1 pendulous ovule in each cell. 

 Style filiform, with 2 short linear stigmatic lobes. Fruit a drupe, the nucleus 

 hard, separating into 2 1-seeded pyrenes. Seeds of Guettarda. — -Shrubs or trees. 

 Stipules interpetiolar, acuminate, deciduous. Flowers often polygamous, sessile 

 on the branches .bf a forked cyme or the females solitary, on axillary peduncles. 



Leaves ovate-elliptical, acuminate, 3 to 6in. long, glabrous above, often 

 slightly pubescent on the under side. Drupe red, ovate-quadrangular, 

 nearly Jin. long, 4-celled .... . . . . . . . . 1. A. tcnuijiora. 



